well in my opinion the keynote gold was real good, its robotic but it was still clear it didn't sing like dectalk does but oh well. At 10:21 a.m. 16/01/2008, you wrote: >Ah yes, I also remember those days. I'll be twenty-eight this June and I >remember well the days of running a BNS through a computer for use with JFD. >I also remember the Echo. It's funny, but while that was probably some of >the worst speech ever it was still some of the coolest. I remember those >text games that used to be available from the same company that made the >Echo. There was that Dragon Maze game and that weird Space Invaders game. >Good times. I've had a lot of trouble finding voice clips of the Echo >synthesizer, but hearing it sure brings back memories. >Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> >Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:37 PM >Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Prefered Sapi voice for games? > > >> Hi Stefen, >> All I can say is I go way back before Jaws for Dos was even invented. My >> first speech synth was an echo for an Apple 2-E, and the text games of >> the mid 80's era were fun. >> Anyway, I can remember the days when I had to use Jaws without such a >> thing as a software synth. In high school I had to carry around a 486 >> laptop with a dectalk express in my backpack which I plugged in after I >> got the laptop all setup on a table in the class room, and it was not a >> very portible setup. In fact, most of the time rather than bringing my >> Dectalk to school I turned on my Braille N Speak and ran it through >> speechbox mode with JFD and JFW 1.x. That was aweful speech! >> >> Stefen Hudson wrote: >>> Wow. 3.2? I started with 3.5. The funny thing about that version of >>> Eloquence was it sounded like it had a sinus problem compared to the >>> newer >>> versions. I've tried using the real speech voices that came with JAWS9 >>> and >>> had some trouble understanding them. They do sound a bit more natural, >>> but >>> sometimes they have this warble effect when they say certain words or >>> phraises, and sometimes they don't say the entire word. >>> >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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